Bombs Away!: The Story of a Bomber Team

A magnificent volume of short novels and an essential World War II report from one of America s great twentiethcentury writers On the heels of the enormous success of his masterwork The Grapes of Wrathand at the height of the American war effortJohn Steinbeck, one of the most prolific and influential literary figures of his generation, wrote Bombs Away, a nonfiction account of his experiences with U.S. Army Air Force bomber crews during World War II. Now, for the first time since its original publication in 1942, Penguin Classics presents this exclusive edition of Steinbeck s introduction to the thennascent U.S. Army Air Force and its bomber crewthe essential core unit behind American air power that Steinbeck described as the greatest team in the world.